Wednesday, 25 December 2013

WE ARE ALL BEING ROASTED like turkeys, this Christmas, as politicians extend their control over what words we can use to incorporate those that we are permitted to read. It began with their alliance to muzzle the British Press with draconian libel laws; continued with their attempts at imposing a politically controlled regulatory body endowed by Royal Charter, and has now been extended to block citizen’s access to Websites that do not conform to their narrow political motives.

The looming battle for May’s Council and European Elections, and the subsequent struggle to regain power in 2015 has forced the quisling politicians to play their only remaining Ace: Censorship (with a capital C) that is not based upon content – but upon individual words, like ‘gambling,’ which, as the illustration shows, resulted in the UK’s Health Lottery, and the government’s Gambling Commission website being blocked by my own ISP, TalkTalk.

David Cameron’s Censorship filter does not only monitor what you are viewing in your browser – it also scans, and modifies, what you receive in your emails as well!..

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

WE LIVE IN DANGEROUS TIMES, when politicians have chosen to place their own welfare and financial greed above those of the electorate whom they serve.

Once there was a clear dividing line between democratic and dictatorial Nation states; but in 2013, that is no longer the case. Few would dispute that there is now a seemingly unstoppable, worldwide trend towards governments that impose their own will upon their citizens, rather than ensuring that the majority’s wishes are observed. Individual freedoms are eroded in order that a privileged minority might seize and retain power to satisfy their own narcissism and inflated concepts of themselves; citizens rightly feel disenfranchised; silent majorities hamper resentment; leaders impose restrictions upon others voicing their views – and society becomes a pressure cooker whose only remaining expression resides in violence and civil war.

Thursday, 11 July 2013

I AM QUITE A FAN of BBC Dramas; but there is now no distinction between that media form and the Corporation’s biased political broadcasts. I actually missed last Sunday’s Politics Show and, instead, caught-up using the BBC’s iPlayer because the programme had been heavily promoted as providing the results of a ComRes poll, especially commissioned by the BBC, of UKIP councillors.

Of course, the great thing about iPlayer is that you can pause, rewind, and replay if a certain sequence seems odd – or if you need to confirm what someone has said – and, although it was not my intention from the outset, I nonetheless found that I was using those facilities quite frequently.

From the outset, the UKIP segment just felt ‘odd.’ For a start, here was the BBC paying several thousand pounds of license payer’s money for a ComRes poll; but its full findings were never disclosed. I had expected a piece focussing upon UKIP Councillor views about local government, for which they had been elected; but instead the programme focussed upon immigration, the death penalty, and global warming. (I wonder why?).

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

FOLLOWING THE PUBLIC OUTRAGE generated by last night’s C4 Dispatches (Monday 24 June), it is notable that the Guardian and the Mirror are leading with the accusation that the Metropolitan Police conducted a ‘smear campaign’ against the Stephen Lawrence family, in 1993; but that each is being careful to ensure that the phrase is contained within apostrophes.

It is also notable that the Prime Minister (David Cameron) and the Home Secretary (Teresa May) have not taken the time to notice the distinction, before instructing Ellison’s Operation Herne to investigate the allegation relating to Police activities that were supposedly conducted twenty-years ago.

The source of the accusation, one Peter Francis, has reportedly acted as a confidential Guardian source since 2011, and has also contributed to a book that, it just so happens, was written by the C4 Dispatches presenter – and is due to be published by Faber & Faber on 4th July, this year.

We can all expect it to do well after all this free publicity; and all the selective politician and media quotes, which will find their way onto its back-cover…

Friday, 24 May 2013

AS A JOURNALIST I have seen some of my stories spiked, or heavily edited, because of ‘the national interest’ – and, by and large, I have always reluctantly agreed to the decision. I was once engaged in enforcing such arrangements, and working in an environment where secrecy was vital, so I am, perhaps, predisposed to allowing the government to have its way on such issues.

But not this time. The beheading of Lee Rigby, on British soil, was a direct result of the incompetence of the British Government – and now our politicians seek to spin us a tale of practising moderate Muslims and some kind of ‘Islamism’ that is opposed to Islam and the teachings of the Koran.

The Press is being muzzled; the ever compliant BBC is engaged in heavy-handed editing and the combined establishment machine has set itself against the people.

There is no ‘Islamism;’ there is just one Koran – and its adherents are taught to kill Jews, Christians, and all non-believers (no matter who or where they are).

I have some knowledge of PsyOps, conducted against the IRA during the Northern Ireland Campaign; but the British establishment are now deploying those same techniques against our country’s indigenous population.

Thursday, 16 May 2013

JUST BEFORE I PACK MY BAGS and indulge myself in a hard earned rest, it occurs to me that I should take the time to throw some light upon the threat to free-thinking that religions, the political left, cults, and secret organisations (exemplified by Common Purpose) pose to democracy.

I have often bemoaned our current education system for not teaching our children how to think; but, instead, teaching our youngsters what to believe. A healthy mind, and a healthy society, is only possible if all our children are taught to be sceptical of anyone purporting to ‘know’ anything; because, whatever the material, it will inevitably be coloured by its proponent’s motives and personal beliefs.

Saturday, 4 May 2013

WHO CANNOT ADMIT to being mesmerized by their TV and computer screens, yesterday afternoon, as the English local election results were hesitantly declared to bemused establishment representatives – by an equally bemused and astonished media?

Forget, for one moment, that the huge surge in support for the UKIP party more than tripled the most optimistic forecasts for them to gain 40 seats, the fact is that there has never been an occasion when all parties have registered less than 30% of the total vote.

Never!

Of the total votes cast in the local elections: Labour received 29%, Conservatives 25%, UKIP 23%, and Lib Dems 14%. However, we should also remember that UKIP only fought some 75% of the available seats – had it fought all, its percentage share would have been even higher.

Monday, 22 April 2013

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT that the LibLabCon pact of career politicians had exhausted all their arguments in trying to defeat UKIP’s rise, the BBC published this: BBC News - Polls: No indication of huge Romanian-Bulgarian influx, and almost immediately the headline and its link was being re-tweeted into the #UKIP space by their opponents. One even had the audacity to suggest: ‘In your face UKIP!’

Such is the intelligence of UKIP detractors that they read only headlines, and do not know that headlines are crafted to attract readers to an article. They do not purport to be an accurate summary of the text! Irony, it seems, is totally lost upon those having less intelligence than even the cretinous politicians they support.

Tuesday, 16 April 2013

THE CONTINUING RISE in support for the Nigel Farage led United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), and the recent death of Baroness Thatcher, has thrown into stark contrast the political demarcation lines that the Europhile governments of the past thirty years have been unable to reconcile. The ridiculous idea that the political right, and the political left, can both be accommodated in some kind of utopian middle-ground in which there is no disagreement fails to recognise the universal and historical truth that humanity advances in steps of left and right – and grows morbidly obese, diseased, and dies, when it rests upon its laurels.

Tuesday, 9 April 2013

I WAS NOT going to comment on the death of Margaret Thatcher. I remember what it was like to live under Labour with our streets reeking of city centre and household waste spawning thousands of baby rats, whilst our dead went unburied. But I also remember Thatcher’s ill conceived poll-tax; and her decision to prevent local councils from spending the proceeds from forced council house sales to rebuild their stock of community housing.

Thatcher would have been a great prime minister, had she not got those key policies so badly wrong.

With almost 33 million over 40s predicted by 2015, from a population of 64.8 million, it is difficult to understand why the infantile Twitter trolls have latched upon this particular demographic’s representation in Farage’s packed audiences. Is it perhaps an attempt to paint the grey-haired majority as mere imbeciles with less wisdom and worldly understanding than that exhibited by the young, drug-consuming, celebrity-worshipping, chavs that the LibLabCons have nurtured to eagerly elect anyone whom will promise to defend their right to a life of irresponsibility and debauchery?

It certainly seems an attempt to divide opinion along ageist lines (perhaps because the racist slur has been unable to find any traction).

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

SO THE CAT IS FINALLY OUT OF THE BAG, and even the gluttonous spiders that have lent their spinning skills to the three main parties are returning to the darkness from which they came.

The charlatans are exposed for the incompetent criminals that they really are, and from amongst the political carnage a growing voice can be heard…

‘Keep calm, and do not give-up. You can change things for the better: just vote UKIP at every chance.’

It has been a long time coming. The British public are, at long last, beginning to question the political spin that I, and others like me, have been writing about over the years. No longer are they meekly accepting as gospel what the career politicians tell them to believe. They are finally looking critically at what each is saying – and checking the facts for themselves.

Friday, 22 March 2013

I AM A VERY PROUD MEMBER of, what I consider to be, the very best union for British Journalists, the BAJ. Compared to the NUJ, of course, it has a very small membership (some 2,000 to the latter’s 38,000) but I thought it might be interesting to use that combined figure of 40,000 to try and place into perspective these revelations by the Daily Mail.

Monday, 18 March 2013

OH MY GOODNESS! Never in my darkest hours had I ever imagined this could happen in Britain; but the UK’s politicians today ensured that they, and their adored media celebrity friends, will never again be pestered by awkward questions or suffer the indignity of being caught on camera when their poses have not been fully rehearsed.

In a cynical ‘all night’ meeting, Oliver Letwin, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and FOUR MEMBERS of the Hacked-Off Campaign got together to dot the Is and cross the Ts of a Royal Press Charter, underpinned by Statute, that would forever rid them of that turbulent Press.

Thursday, 14 March 2013

DESPITE REELING from the effects of various sexual scandals and reports of financial corruption at the very heart of the Vatican, Cardinals decided to elect the scatty Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church.

The seventy-six year old, whom has now adopted the name Francis, has been quoted as saying: ‘"I see it [the Roman Curia] as a body that gives service, a body that helps me and serves me. Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.’

Judging by his eminent vocabulary, sexual perversions appear to be at the forefront of the new Pope’s mind, and it is interesting to see how his personal interpretation of the aberrant behaviour is to classify it as a ‘sin that taints all men and women.’

Of course, Jesuits are widely known to make it all up as they go along – so when he reinvents the Greek to mean ‘focus[ing] on the negative rather than the positive aspects,’ cynics like myself are forced to conclude that this is purely in preparation for further fetish revelations that he intends to fend off by educating his flock in the Catholicmeaning of the nouns that will be found in future Press reports.

Saturday, 2 March 2013

IT IS NOW EVIDENT that, in the wake of the Leveson Report, the British Press are going to be forced to accept further regulations designed to curtail their investigative freedoms. In particular, the police will be given the power to seize journalistic material and force journalists to disclose their sources. Despite paying lip-service to the rights of whistle-blowers to raise their concerns in the public domain, the British Government is about to remove the last vestige of protection that their anonymity can provide them.

The privileged protection of sources has long been a fundamental right, granted to the Press as a means of protecting democracy. Without it, witnesses and whistle-blowers are placed at the mercy of those whom they accuse – and all wrongdoers are comprehensively empowered.

There is every reason to believe that these draconian powers will be passed into Law, and our prison populations will again be enlarged by journalists refusing to disclose their sources – despite the establishment’s attempts to force them.